INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TEACHINGFOR STUDENTS IN VIETNAM

Dr. Phan Quoc Nguyen
Vietnam National University, Hanoi

Tokyo, November 06, 2019

PROFILE OF PRESENTER

1/ IP Attorney, Senior consultant and expert in intellectual property, technology
transfer, innovation management (Innovation Ambassador-Euroinvent).
2/ Founder of TLO of some Vietnamese leading technical universities.
3/ Director of Public Relations of World Invention and Intellectual Property
Associations (WIIPA); “Pro Scientia et Innovation” Medal, Kight title.
4/ Vietnamese representative: (03 times) Country Report at the UniversityIndustry Technology Transfer Forum by WIPO; Country Report on Innovation
policy by JPIII; Country Report on Invention Commercialization by EPO, etc.
5/ Only Vietnamese scholar whose papers are accepted continuously for oralpresentation at Asia-Pacific Innovation Conference (APIC): in 2011 at National
University of Singapore, in 2012 at Seoul National University, in 2013 atTaiwan National University, in 2014 at University of Technology, Sydney, in2016 at Kyushu University.
6/ Judge and Award Winner for invention contests: Kaohsiung International
Invention and Design Exhibition (KIDE) by WIIPA in Taiwan; Envex Young
Researcher Club (i-ENVEX) by University Malaysia of Perlis in Malaysia;EUROINVENT by Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi in Romania;
World Invention and Creativity Contest (WICC) by Korea University Invention
Association in South Korea; and Vietnam Innovation (Vietnam Television
Channel No.3), Inventions-Solutions and Inventors (Vietnam Television
Channel No. 2), IP and the Life (Vietnam and Province Televisions), Womanwith Scientific Research and IP (Vietnam Television Channel No.2), Vietnamand the World (Vietnam Television Channel No.4), etc.

PROFILE OF PRESENTER- Member of Draft and Revision Group: Decision No. 78/2008/QD-BGDDT of Vietnam’s
Ministry of Education and Training on IP activities at university and training institutions; IPPolicy of Hanoi University of Technology; IP Policy of Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
- More than 10-year experience in lecturing, at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, in teachingfor personnel of Ministries, Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Businessmen Training
Institutions, Provincial and Municipal Departments and corporations subjects: IP Management,Innovation Management, Technology Management, Technology Transfer, Trademark
Development, IP and Technology Valuation, Contract negotiation skills, Contract Law, EnterpriseManagement, Business Law, Company Law, Business Ethics and CSR, etc.
- Chief author of textbook and book: Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer and PatentInformation Exploitation (Bach Khoa Publishing House, 2008, 2010, 2016); Technology andInnovation Management (TOPICA, 2012) and co-author of books: Innovation Essentials,(Science and Technology Publishing House, 2012); Technology Transfer (Science andTechnology Management Institution, 2010), Intellectual Property Exploitation for Green
Economy Growth in Vietnam (National Economics University, 2016), etc.
- First Vietnamese gains the certificates of WIPO: “Technology Transfer and IP
Commercialization” at University of California, Davis, USA, 2012; “Innovation support services
and their management” in Switzerland, 2006; “Industry-Academy technology transferpromotion” in Singapore, 2005 and gains other certificates: “Advanced IP Management” of Japan
Patent Office in Japan, 2006; “Training course for trainers of Innovation Management” of Aalto
University, Finland, 2010-2011; “Technology Commercialization through Business Incubation”
and “Monitoring, Evaluating and Benchmarking Business Incubators” by InfoDev, World Bankand International Finance Corporation, in Helsinki, Finland, 2011, etc.

CONTENTS

I. Introduction
II.Current status of IP Teaching forstudents in Vietnam
III. Recommendations

INTRODUCTION- Vietnam has had anunderdeveloped economy.
- Since its renovation and shift to an
open economy, it has seen moreprogress.

INTRODUCTION- The actual economy is in doubletransition:+ moving from centrally planned
state economy to market economy+ moving from agricultural
economy to industrial economy

INTRODUCTION- Multiple challenges of globalization.
- Need for shortcut industrialization andmodernization.
- Demand of technologies for national
development, in particular after
Vietnam’s accession to WTO in 2007,
joining in the AEC, 2015, the CPTPP
and the EVFTA, 2018-2019.

INTRODUCTION- Universities/research institutes is the main source ofnew inventions to be patented and commercialized,
and applied into production.

→ Therefore, IP teaching is very important to+ raise awareness about IP;+ build the IP culture;+ promote IP commercialization; and+ protect IPRs,→ Important for the set-up of technology market andsocio-economic development.

CURRENT STATUS- IP teaching for+ law students,+ students in technical, business-economic,accounting and human-social fields.

CURRENT STATUS

1/ Law students: 2 credits.
- IP Law and IP-related courses (IPdispute resolution, Industrial Property
filing and registration consulting) in
Law school- Specialization of civil law, economic
law and international lawCURRENT STATUS

2/ Others:- Economy-Trade and Business schools: 2credits: IPRs introduction, Trademark.
- Human-Social schools: 2 credits: IP
policy and general introduction.

- Culture and art: elective courses ofCopyright, Design

CURRENT STATUS

2/ Others:- Technical schools: elective courses orcourses intergrating IP in other subjects:
i.e. University of Engineering andTechnology, Vietnam National
University, Hanoi: Profession inTechnology (IPRs, Technology transferand IP licensing).

CURRENT STATUS* Extra IP teaching: seminars, short training
courses by NOIP, Vietnam Institute of IP,
other relevant ministries, online
introduction courses by WIPO.

CURRENT STATUS* Materials:- Textbooks: from some law schools,
economic schools and technical school
i.e. (Phan Quoc Nguyen is ChiefAuthor).
- Books: from some universities andcolleges.
- Proceedings from seminars, conferences.
- Translated books from JPO, WIPO, etc.

CURRENT STATUS* Lecturers:- Limited number.
- Visiting professors.
- No standard and regular program fortraining.
→ High demand for IP teaching in this timefor economic integration but some related
course is limited.

RANK OF GLOBAL INNOVATION INDEX OF
VIETNAM AND SOME COUNTRIES (Source: The GII)Year

No of Highest
countscorery

Vietnam

Malaysia

Singapore

Thailand

Score

Rank

Score

Rank

Score

Rank

Score

Rank

2011

125

74.1

36.71

51

44.05

31

74.11

1

43.33

48

2012

141

68.2

33.9

76

45.9

32

64.80

3

36.90

57

2013

142

66.59

34.82

76

46.92

32

59.41

8

37.63

57

2014

143

64.78

34.89

71

45.60

3359.24739.28482015

14168.3

38.35

5245.98

3259.36738.1055

POLICY AND LAWS
+ S&T Strategy to 2020;+ Reforms of S&T Management mechanisms;+ Development of technology market;+ International integration in S&T;
+ Law on Science and Technology (2000, amended in 2013);+ Law on Intellectual Property (2005, amended in 2009);+ Law on Standards and Technical Regulations (2006);+ Law on Technology Transfer (2006);+ Law on High Technology (2008) andand 52 decisions, decrees to guide law implementation.

PROGRAM AND PROJECT-14 programs in State-level (10 in S&T and 04 insocial sciences and humanities).
- Cooperate with 70 countries, signed andimplemented more than 80 Agreements, memberof more than 100 organizations in S&T.
- Projects:+ IPP (Innovation Partnership Programme, 2nd term);+ FIRST (Fostering Innovation through Research,Science and Technology);+ V-KIST;+ BIPP (Support to the Innovation and Developmentof business incubators policy project)

INSTITUTIONS- 505 R&D organizations (Source:MOST).

- 400 universities and colleges.
- 400.000 enterprises, 2,800 S&T
enterprises, but only 204 enterprises
have been granted S&T enterprisecertificate (Source: MOST, in 11/2015).RECOMMENDATIONS- More time.
- More lecturers.
- More updated subjects.
- More teaching for technical andbusiness students.
- More specific courses.
- More projects and programs.
- Online courses.

THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION

Dr. PHAN QUOC NGUYEN
Hand phone: +84-913078792

Email: pqnguyen77@yahoo.com